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African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Saturday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

April 26, 2014 by pragobots 61 Comments

This week's open threads have highlighted the accomplishments of several African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists. Today's post is going to focus on the current host of  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Neil deGrasse Tyson ( born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Friday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

April 25, 2014 by pragobots 160 Comments

Astronomer Derrick Pitts was born on January 22, 1955 in the Tioga-Nicetown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, Pitts was fascinated by outer space and rockets. After graduating from Germantown Academy, he received his B.S. degree in geology from St. Lawrence University in 1978. Pitts began working at The Franklin Institute as a young college student. He was … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Thursday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

April 24, 2014 by pragobots 213 Comments

Dr. Beth A. Brown was born in Roanoke, VA in 1969. She liked science because she was always curious about how something worked and why something existed. She participated in science fairs in elementary school and junior high, but although space fascinated her, she chose projects that had nothing to do with astronomy. She grew up watching Star Trek, Star Wars, and other … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

April 23, 2014 by pragobots 151 Comments

Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker, Jr. (August 24, 1936 – April 29, 2001) was a solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He is most noted for having developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Two of his sounding rocket payloads, the Stanford/MSFC Rocket Spectroheliograph Experiment and theMulti-Spectral Solar Telescope Array, … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Tuesday Open Thread: African American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

April 22, 2014 by pragobots 144 Comments

George Robert Carruthers  is an African-American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life in Washington, DC. He is the inventor of the spectrograph, which is a moon-based observatory that was used on the Apollo 16 mission. George Robert Carruthers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 1, 1939, and grew up in South Side, Chicago. His father was … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African American Astronomers and Astrophysicists

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